sashay

[ sa-shey ]

/ sæˈʃeɪ /

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verb (used without object) Informal.

to glide, move, or proceed easily or nonchalantly: She just sashayed in as if she owned the place.

to chassé in dancing.

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Origin of sashay

1830–40, Americanism; metathetic variant of chassé

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH sashay

sachet, sashay , Sasha

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How to use sashay in a sentence

Pouring over hot water prompts that familiar aroma that sashays side to side as I blow before sipping until I’m content.
The Case for Instant Coffee|Angela Burke|November 23, 2020|Eater
Smaller bands of green sashayed out again, taking different shapes in unexpected quadrants of blackness.
Visiting the Arctic Circle…Before It’s Irreversibly Changed|Terry Greene Sterling|April 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“I am a divorced woman,” one said as she sashayed up and down the room in Goma.
Congo's Feminist Fight|Linda Bird Francke|July 7, 2010|DAILY BEAST
So they sashayed off together t'wards the nighest grocery arm in arm.
Sundry Accounts|Irvin S. Cobb

Ye remember how he sashayed round newspaper offices in 'Frisco until he could write a flapdoodle story himself?
A First Family of Tasajara|Bret Harte
When she see Jinnie she jist made strides for the wood-shed, and old Jinnie sashayed arter her.
Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks|Charles Felton Pidgin
Plump mothers took part in the quaint old fashioned figures, and swung and balanced and "sashayed" in a gale of fun.
Rose of Dutcher's Coolly|Hamlin Garland
We sashayed into the kitchen an' theah, jus' sittin' easylike an' waitin' right on the table, was two or three pies!
Ride Proud, Rebel!|Andre Alice Norton

British Dictionary definitions for sashay

sashay

/ (sæˈʃeɪ) /

verb (intr) informal

to move, walk, or glide along casually

to move or walk in a showy way; parade

Word Origin for sashay

C19: from an alteration of chassé, a gliding dance step

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